Letter signed by 550 former chiefs of espionage, military, police and diplomats asks the US president to press Benjamin Netanyahu to end the conflict in Palestine
Almost 600 former employees of the security apparatus of including several former Mossad and Shin Bet directors, they asked the US President Press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza. “Stop the war in Gaza!” Says the letter of the “Commanders for Israel’s Safety” (CIS) movement, signed by 550 former chiefs of espionage, military, police and diplomats.
“This war is no longer a fair war and is leading the state of Israel to lose its identity,” warns Ami Ayalon, former director of Shin Bet (The Internal Security Service), in a video released by the same movement to follow the publication of this letter. The signatories of the letter released on Monday are three former Mossad directors-the external intelligence service-five former Shin Bet directors and three former army staff commanders.
“On behalf of the CIS, the largest Israeli group of former army commanders, Mossad, Shin Bet, police and equivalent diplomatic bodies, we urge that they end up with the war in Gaza. They did it in Lebanon. It’s time to do the same in Gaza,” the text says in an appeal to President Trump. “The Tsahal (Israeli Army) has long fulfilled the two goals that could be achieved by force: dismantling military formations and the Hamas Government,” the Palestinian Islamist movement, consider CIS members.
“The third, and most importantly, can only be achieved with an agreement: bring all hostages home,” they highlight. “We consider, as professionals, that Hamas no longer represents a strategic threat to Israel and our experience indicates that Israel has everything that is necessary to manage their residual horror capabilities, at a distance or otherwise,” they explain in the letter.
“Pursuing the latest Hamas leaders can be done later, but hostages cannot expect,” insists former commanders of Israel’s espionage, intelligence and general security services. “Their credibility with the vast majority of Israelis reinforces their ability to guide prime minister Netanyahu and his government in the right direction,” add the signatories. The letter emphasizes the goal at this time: “ending war, bringing hostages, interrupting suffering and forming a regional-international coalition that helps the Palestinian (once renovated) authority to offer the inhabitants of Gaza and all Palestinians an alternative to Hamas and their perverse ideology”.
*With information from AFP
